The Czech alexandrine is also metrically ambiguous because of its accentuation, which can reflect the rhythms of iambic hexameter, dactylic tetrameter, and combinations thereof.
In Czech the first syllable of every lexical word or prepositional phrase is always stressed, so rhythmical units are: s, S, Ss, Sss, Ssss.
Although the discussed metre was theoretically fully iambic, he inserted many trisyllabic words into his lines: The variation in rhythms can be heard in a formally equivalent paraphrase:
V jezeru zeleném bílý je ptáků sbor, a lehkých člůnků běh i rychlé veslování[6] Emerald, ivory: pelicans flock the lake As oarsmen pilot sculls and cutters hurryingly.
Vzduch zhluboka se chvěl pod písní váhavou a jemnou, mollovou… A od vod teskně zpět mu hoboj vlhkem zněl: Jsou ohně marny, jsou, vždy zhasnou, uplovou.
Among them there were Vítězslav Nezval, Jiří Orten, Ivan Blatný, Vladimír Holan and Oldřich Vyhlídal.